The future is hard to see from here, but perhaps we can hear it coming. Sounding the Future is a hybrid audio and reading experience that seeks to listen in to the art of the future. It reconfigures the content from Priest’s interactive installation of the same name into a hypertext adventure that entwines fictional scenarios and factual research.&#xa0; Across ten speculative scenarios, presented as both text and creative audio pieces, Priest explores the Future human — the melding of technology and biology resulting in trans- and post-human conditions; and the Future city — the sonic potentials of the new environments we might build around us. Grounding these speculations are Future citings — non-fiction and documentary fragments that weave present practice into this future thinking, including audio interviews with eight of Australia’s most innovative sound and media artists: Guy Ben-Ary, Peter Blamey, Michaela Davies, Robin Fox, Jasmine Guffond, Cat Hope, George Poonkhin Khut, and Pia van Gelder. As a document of this multi-outcome project, the publication also includes the catalogue for the exhibition Sounding the Future , presented at UTS Gallery, Sydney in 2017, featuring works by Gail Priest (curator), George Poonkhin Khut, Pia van Gelder &amp; Tom Smith and Peter Blamey, with a catalogue essay by Dr Lizzie Muller.&#xa0;

You’re gonna be partying and drinking your ass off on New Year’s Eve … and so will Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne and Future, but those rappers are raking in LOADS of cash for their services. We’re told Nicki and Weezy will be…

Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and partner at Greylock, speaks with MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito, sharing insights from their work in technology. This conversation was part of WIRED25, WIRED’s 25th anniversary celebration in San Francisco.WIRED Videos

BRANDED CONTENT | Produced by WIRED Brand Lab with Messenger Business | The new frontier of Marketing is here. Wired Contributor, Jakob Schiller sits down with Eric Toda, Head of Marketing for Hill City, to discuss how apps like Messenger are changing the landscape of marketing to become more 1:1.WIRED Videos

4G was launched back in 2010 and with it came app stores, video streaming, programmatic auctions and augmented reality, virtual reality and artificial intelligence became a fledgling possibility.XBIZ.com – Opinion

After publicly clashing in a debate over the concept of Islamic reform in the Muslim world, prominent atheist philosopher Sam Harris and Islamist-turned-liberal-Muslim Maajid Nawaz reconnect several years later in an attempt at civil and honest dialogue. Sam and Maajid attempt to explore their real or imagined divides by clearly and rationally dissecting their disagreements. Through the course of their discussions, they tackle troubling passages from the Quran, the importance of the precision of language and terms (such as “Jihadism,” “Islamists,” and “radical,”) and the difficulty in finding helpful and honest responses in a fraught political terrain. Ultimately, this unlikely collaboration sheds light on the many confusions that afflict the public conversation about Islam and emphasizes how the virtues of open dialogue can help foster both understanding and tolerance in an increasingly polarized world.

In the second episode of ‘The Future of Work’, WIRED Brand Lab shares how they balance expectations between leadership and the rest of the WIRED team using Slack. WIRED’s Director of Brand Development Ryan Aspell sits down with Digital Sales Planner Erica Schulz, Digital Sales Planner Charles Ellis, and Business Manager Janelle Teng to discuss how Slack is integral to ensuring clarity of direction when new agendas and initiatives are introduced.WIRED Videos

LONDON — Fashion is having a flashback as retailers plunder brands’ archives and luxury giants revitalize their greatest hits — the Fendi Baguette, the Dior Saddle Bag, the Prada flame and banana prints, to name a few — and mine the past for future profits.
Versace continues to pump out pieces from its successful Tribute collection, an explosion of Nineties gold baroque prints and flashy hardware that debuted in Milan last year on supermodels including Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Carla Bruni and Claudia Schiffer.
Prada’s flame print has been licking its way across limited-edition tops and shoes, while Mr Porter revived the brand’s quirky bowling shirts in April. The Helmut Lang brand is reintroducing replicas of the original jeans the designer pioneered when he still helmed the brand, while Maison Alaïa is offering reeditions of designs from 1988, 1989 and 1993 on the brand’s web site.
Then there’s Marc Jacobs who, as reported, is this month set to deliver a full-on grunge collection for resort that harks back to his spring 1993 outing for Perry Ellis. Those seminal designs, which famously got him and his partner Robert Duffy fired, cemented Jacobs’ position as a maverick.Fine jewelry and sneaker brands are getting in on the action, too: Last year,

In the debut episode of ‘The Future of Work’, WIRED Brand Lab shares how they found a new way of collaborating using Slack. WIRED’s Director of Brand Development Ryan Aspell sits down with Executive Director Matt Stevenson, Executive Assistant Shaquille Cheris, and Business Manager Janelle Teng to discuss how Slack has improved collaboration among teams and between departments.WIRED Videos

Most rappers in the game know what it’s like to go through the struggle before making it big time and while some try to put it behind them others embrace the life that made them who they are. Dave East is one of them.
For his visual to “Found A Way” the Harlem rapper reminisces about the hardships he went through growing up and recreates his past life of a hustler on the ball court.

Speaking of being proud of where you came from, Future and Juice WRLD take it back to their humble beginning as well and lamp on the porch with their peoples while sipping on that potion for their clip to “Realer N Realer.”

Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Lil Durk featuring Lil Skies, Shy Glizzy, and more.

Last Friday Future and Juice WRLD took the game by surprise by dropping their unannounced duet project WRLD on Drugs and now the two of them have come through with some new visuals for an album cut.
Going futuristic (or intergalactic) for their visual to “No Issue,” Future and Juice lamp in a no mans land accompanied by nothing but a DeLorean and a gang of blue skinned people. So did they go to the future in the DeLorean where a race of blue people walk the earth or are they on another planet where the inhabitants are blue and the DeLorean is a UFO?

Back on present day earth Ace Hood gives viewers an inside look at the training regiment he goes through to keep his pecs poppin’ for his clip to “Undefeated x Chosen.”

Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Robb Bank$ , Coca Vango, and more.

I fund my Periscopes and podcasts via audience micro-donations on Patreon. I prefer this method over accepting advertisements or working for a “boss” somewhere because it keeps my voice independent. No one owns me, and that is rare. I’m trying in my own way to make the world a better place, and your contributions help me stay inspired to do that.

At a company in Richmond, Calif., robotic painters are working alongside human workers, sanding and painting cabinets. Despite early fears from employees, the human workers have grown to embrace the “cobots” — collaborative robots who are helping them get the job done.WIRED Videos

While the rap game continues to become more about the glitz and glamor that come with the fame, there are still a few artists who represent the gutter and gullyness Hip-Hop was founded on.
Uncle Murda and Dave East happen to be such artists and link up for the clip to “Hold Up” where the two New Yorkers hole up at a secluded spot where the cars are foreign, the women exotic, and the dead president’s are American.

Going from NYC to ATL, 6lack calls on Future for the clip to “East Atlanta Love Letter” where viewers get an idea of what the night life is like in the city that helped make Donald Glover a fan favorite actor. Seriously, how long before we get a new season of Atlanta?

Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Ghostface Killa featuring Kxng Crooked, Benny The Butcher and .38 Spesh, Soulja Boy, and more.

While the world waits to see if Eminem conjures up the spirit of Slim Shady and responds to darts from Machine Gun Kelly, Ja Rule and maybe even Lupe Fiasco, he’s taking his time recording visuals for his true blue fans to enjoy.
Just a week and change after releasing the video for “Fall,” Mr. Mathers comes through with a post apocalyptic-ish visual for the Joyner Lucas assisted “Lucky You” which features Em and JL rocking out to an audience of, well, we’re not sure. Do seem to be fans though.

Future meanwhile gets artistic with it and in his clip to “31 Days” uses some puppet animation and cut out background scenes to get his point across.

Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Kevin Gates, Phresher featuring Dream Doll and Jay Critch, and more.

It seems like Future and Young Thug are so attached at the hip that they’re even doing guest appearances together.
The 2018 Southern version of Red and Meth hop on Young Scooter’s visual to “Trippple Cross” where the trio hang with some masked goons that are holding an upside down American flag while strapped with explosives. How long before Trumpians lose their collective sh*t and begin to call for these men to get out of their Amerikkka?

On a lighter note Jim Jones leaves behind the concrete jungle for some fun in the sun and clear water beaches in his jealousy inducing clip to the Eric Bellinger assisted “Living My Best Life.” No Lil Duval cameo?

Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Curren$ y featuring Harry Fraud, IDK, and more.

Future sure does love throwing a mansion party where the women are half-naked and don’t mind twerking.

In his NSFW visual to “WIFI LIT” that’s exactly how things play out plus more as the women attending find themselves not only participating in a party but also making some soft porn with Future in the director’s chair. Future going for an AVN Award this year?
Tekashi 6ix9ine meanwhile decided to take a break from gangsta rap and get his Spanglish on and make auto-tuned joints for the thick women of Mexico in his Anuel AA assisted clip to “BEBE.” Even though he’s 50’s man he seems to be going down the same road Ja Rule did. Just sayin.’

Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from the Black Eyed Peas, Young Dolph featuring Key Glock, and more.

In the age of data-driven decision-making, automation is becoming more and more important in the ad tech world. There is no escaping from it — automation is the future and ad tech platforms that invest in automation technology are going to become the key players in the industry over the next few years.XBIZ.com – Opinion

Zombie Boy’s death by apparent suicide came as a complete shock to those close to him, because he was very excited about things to come … so says his manager. Karim Leduc tells TMZ … Zombie Boy — real name Rick Genest﻿, but known as Rico to…

Saying realistic sex dolls are the future of our sex culture, SexySexDoll.com has announced the availability of its services as an authorized reseller of quality sex doll brands.XBIZ.com – Pleasure & Retail

Kanye West is a “Deadpool” fan, and he’s putting his music where his mouth is! In a series of tweets, the rapper praised the franchise for being “innovative” and offered to clear his songs for another installment. See how Ryan Reynolds responded to Kanye’s Twitter love.

Ever since Tru Life came home two years ago the streets been waiting for him to get back on the rap grind and rep the often forgotten 6th Borough (Lower East Side). Today (June 8), the former Roc-A-Fella artist comes through with a Future assisted visual to “Baddie” where he incorporates some southern spices into his New York-flavored flow while some young women provide some seductive company.
Jazzy Amra meanwhile throws a throwback party and gets Wyclef Jean and Riley to man some live instruments in the visuals to “You Got Me (Remix).”

Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Damar Jackson and Gucci Mane, Rich The Kid, and more.

The Philadelphia 76ers ownership group met for several hours in New York on Tuesday evening to discuss whether the findings of a probe into president of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo necessitate his firing, league sources told ESPN.www.espn.com – NBA

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of their landmark album, Days of Future Passed, The Moody Blues took to the road to perform the entire LP live. This film, capturing an electric evening at The Sony Centre, Toronto, where the band were joined on stage by a full orchestra for the first time ever, is the definitive performance of this seminal album. This spectacle of a show features stunning visuals and a unique narration performed by Jeremy Irons, transporting the audience and viewer to the psychedelic dream world of their classic record. Including the iconic hits Nights In White Satin and Tuesday Afternoon, this film truly pays homage to five decades of musical mastery. In this impressive yet intimate auditorium, The Moody Blues have never sounded better.

[[tmz:video id=”0_jwpdwuzj”]] Julius Randle says you can jam it with all the questions about LeBron James on the Lakers … because there’s one Lakers future he’s much more interested in … HIS OWN. Randle is coming off a career season with the Purple…

So long, 2017 season. We’re on to 2018. The Jets are going to break the bank for the best quarterback on the market. The Browns, meanwhile, will add two QBs. We get out the crystal ball.www.espn.com – NFL

At a company in Richmond, Calif., robotic painters are working alongside human workers, sanding and painting cabinets. Despite early fears from employees, the human workers have grown to embrace the “cobots” — collaborative robots who are helping them get the job done.WIRED Videos

The Rolling Loud Miami festival is looking like a must-attend for Hip-Hop heads this late spring/early summer. Over its three nights, the festival will be headlined by J. Cole, Travis Scott and Future.

Also on the bill are Migos, Cardi B, N*E*R*D, The Diplomats, Lil Uzi Vert, and many, many more. Like, Thug, Big K.R.I.T., Rick Ross and more.

J. Cole headlines Friday, May 11, Travis Scott hold down Saturday and Future will close out on Sunday. Peep the full list of musicians above.

The 2018 Rolling Loud Miami festival goes down May 11 to May 13 at Miami Garden’s Hard Rock Stadium. Tickets go on sale this Friday (Feb. 2) at RollingLoud.

This time around the ATLien duo go from the trap house to a manor for the clip to “Mink Flow” where the two hole up in a spooky mansion draped in minks while turning up next to big snakes and exotic looking women.
Nav and Lil Uzi Vert meanwhile go the cartoon route for their visuals to “Wanted You” where their animated selves get down in a studio and meat locker. They couldn’t shoot this kind of concept this in real life?

Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Victor Oladipo, Chanel West Coast, and more.

We might have to wait till March for Donald Glover’s Atlanta to get our fill of Big Peach living but until then Future and Young Thug gonna keep the A buzzing with their noise.
In their future to “All Da Smoke” Hendrix and Thugga take it back to the trap house where the stoop is the hangout spot and the jux is right around the corner.

Meanwhile back in Toronto, OVO artists Majid Jordan get on their 90’s R&B ish and get all in their feelings in their retro misty looking visual to “Gave Your Love Away.” Even the title sounds like an 90’s R&B joint.

Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Jaden Smith, OMB Peezy featuring Yhung T.O., and more.

While engineers figure out how to make flying cars a reality, Bell Helicopter is pushing ahead with the design for the interior of an urban air-taxi service. We try out the concept at CES 2018.WIRED Videos

A couple fans claim they got jacked up from an alleged stampede at a Future concert last year, and say the rapper and Live Nation are responsible … so they’re suing. Catrina Washington and Shauntay Harris filed separate lawsuits against…

The Frozen Wilds has arrived, and we’ve decided to give it the treatment it deserves! Expanding Horizon Zero Dawn in every possible way, this beautiful, frosty adventure pits Aloy against a set of deadly new machines. It connects deeply into the main game and raises the challenge level dramatically, even with all of the new tools and Skills on offer. Following the format and depth of the Horizon Zero Dawn Collector’s Edition Guide, we’ll show you how to get the most out of this wonderful expansion. The official 200 page expansion to our Horizon Zero Dawn guide is here.

Donald Trump’s chaotic and racially divisive Presidency has had everyone in the culture on their political wokeness and now it seems that N.E.R.D has officially joined the resistance.
For their Future assisted visuals to “1000” N.E.R.D and Future decide to sit out any camera time and instead have the video focus on today’s political climate showcasing all the protests and racially charged demonstrations that have engulfed Agent Orange’s Amerikkka.

Back in the hood LES native Fokis calls on Punchline and Hip-Hop OG Sadat X to speak on how they’d change up the way things are done in the world in the clip to “If I Had It My Way.”

Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Lecrae, YG Hootie, and more.

Digital avatars and tools like Apple’s new Animoji app may forever change the way we communicate. But they’re also blurring the line between reality and fantasy. We take a look at how this technology works and what can be done to prevent the spread of manipulated videos in the future.WIRED Videos

Today might be one of the biggest days of my life, and it will be impossible to explain why that is so unless you know at least a little bit about blockchain, dAPPS, cryptocurrencies, Ethereum, and the legal distinction between a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT) and an ICO.

If those words look unfamiliar, one of the biggest technical revolutions the world has ever known is sneaking up on you. The folks in Silicon Valley — who live about three years in the future compared to the rest of the country — can’t stop talking about this topic. The smartest people in the Valley tell me blockchain will change nearly everything, and already is. It’s like “the Internet” before anyone had heard of the Internet. That’s how big it is.

One small example is that startups are raising funds by creating and selling their own digital “tokens” or “coins,” using blockchain technology, that serve as the payment mechanisms within their products. The tokens have an advantage over regular money in part because you can program simple rules for them using distributed apps, or dAPPS, to add function to your product. And blockchain brings its own set of advantages I’ll mention below.

In the case of WhenHub, a dAPP will trigger an automatic payment when certain conditions are met. The effect is to eliminate billing and invoicing efforts for micro-contracts while creating a distributed record of each transaction that is impervious to manipulation.

My example doesn’t get at the full power of blockchain. It’s just one of the many things it can do.

The reason people buy these digital tokens from startups is that they hope the value will rise as the startup adds customers. The tokens are artificially limited in quantity, so the value of each token increases with demand. Customers of the startup won’t notice the rise in token value because prices within the product are pegged to nominal “real money” value. In other words, if one token is worth a dollar today, but worth ten dollars tomorrow, the startup auto-adjusts the price within the product to ten-percent of a token. The customer always pays the same “real money” price even as token values rise.

Tokens can easily be exchanged for Bitcoins or cash on websites that do that sort of thing. See Bitcoin Exchanges.

The process of creating digital tokens to raise funds is called an ICO (initial coin offering) when you do it the wild-west unregulated way. If you lawyer-up in advance, jumping through lots of (expensive) hoops to minimize future regulatory risks, your lawyers will tell you to call it a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT). A SAFT is a contract with the startup to issue you tokens if and when it is able to launch a network in which the token has utility value. That’s what WhenHub is announcing today.

To be clear, ICOs and SAFTs are not investments, nor do they give the buyer equity in the startup. But they do provide an easy way — compared to angel investing — to share in whatever success the startup experiences. With SAFTs and ICOs the startup describes its plans in a white paper so any potential token buyers can evaluate the risks. WhenHub already has several products on the market, with more coming soon, but we describe in our white paper a proposed new product that is based on our existing scheduling platform and takes advantage of blockchain. The proposed product (WhenHub Interface) is the one that will use digital tokens.

If you are new to this field, I hope I just gave you a toe-hold for understanding it. And I would be delighted if you share this post with friends.

Our tokens are only available in Australia, Canada, European Economic Area, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Russian Federation, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States (excluding New York State). If you are in the United States, you need to be an Accredited Investor (meaning kinda rich) to participate. Outside the United States, regulatory restrictions are lower.

Our Pre-sale is now in progress and our Public Sale starts on Nov. 10, 2017. During the Pre-sale, the minimum purchase amount is $ 50,000 and participants get an Early Bird bonus of 30%. For the Public Sale the minimum amount is $ 250, and the the Early Bird discount starts at 20% and decreases to none in two weeks.

Here’s the executive summary from our white paper. A link to the full paper is at the end.

— Executive Summary —

WhenHub proposes to build a mobile app for connecting
consumers to experts of all kinds via two-way video
streams, text, audio, or in person. The app will be part
of a larger service ecosystem called the WhenHub
Interface Network (WIN) (Patent Pending).

The service will use dAPPS (distributed apps) running
on the Ethereum blockchain to create secure micro-contracts
– that can be as short as 15 minutes – as well
as to provide frictionless billing and payment service. At
the end of each micro-contract, payment in the form of
WHEN Tokens will be automatically transferred to the
expert. No paperwork or billing is involved.

Users buy WHEN Tokens using a credit card or with
Bitcoins at an online exchange via the WhenHub
Interface app. The tokens are used within the app to pay
experts for their time.

For privacy, your phone number and address are not
shared with experts.

No international billing and currency issues when WHEN
Tokens are involved.

Pricing for experts can be fixed or auction-based.

In the gig economy, think of this product as a “long tail”
market for expert advice. Experts of all kinds can display
their availability whenever they like, for as short a window
as 15 minutes.

The WhenHub Interface app will use the existing
commercial WhenHub API for scheduling and geofencing
features.

WhenSense is our proposed technology for allowing
third-party sites to host ads about our participating
experts’ availability and share in the income from
completed contracts. Site owners paste our HTML code
into their site to participate.

WHEN Tokens are not an investment vehicle, but
because they will be artificially limited in quantity, their
value is expected to fluctuate based on customer
demand for the WhenHub Interface app.

WHEN Tokens are now available for public purchase via
a formal offering. Visit this page for details of the
offering.

Today might be one of the biggest days of my life, and it will be impossible to explain why that is so unless you know at least a little bit about blockchain, dAPPS, cryptocurrencies, Ethereum, and the legal distinction between a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT) and an ICO.

If those words look unfamiliar, one of the biggest technical revolutions the world has ever known is sneaking up on you. The folks in Silicon Valley – who live about three years in the future compared to the rest of the country – can’t stop talking about this topic. The smartest people in the Valley tell me blockchain will change nearly everything, and already is. It’s like “the Internet” before anyone had heard of the Internet. That’s how big it is.

One small example is that startups are raising funds by creating and selling their own digital “tokens” or “coins,” using blockchain technology, that serve as the payment mechanisms within their products. The tokens have an advantage over regular money in part because you can program simple rules for them using distributed apps, or dAPPS, to add function to your product. And blockchain brings its own set of advantages I’ll mention below.

In the case of WhenHub, a dAPP will trigger an automatic payment when certain conditions are met. The effect is to eliminate billing and invoicing efforts for micro-contracts while creating a distributed record of each transaction that is impervious to manipulation.

My example doesn’t get at the full power of blockchain. It’s just one of the many things it can do.

The reason people buy these digital tokens from startups is that they hope the value will rise as the startup adds customers. The tokens are artificially limited in quantity, so the value of each token increases with demand. Customers of the startup won’t notice the rise in token value because prices within the product are pegged to nominal “real money” value. In other words, if one token is worth a dollar today, but worth ten dollars tomorrow, the startup auto-adjusts the price within the product to ten-percent of a token. The customer always pays the same “real money” price even as token values rise.

Tokens can easily be exchanged for Bitcoins or cash on websites that do that sort of thing. See Bitcoin Exchanges.

The process of creating digital tokens to raise funds is called an ICO (initial coin offering) when you do it the wild-west unregulated way. If you lawyer-up in advance, jumping through lots of (expensive) hoops to minimize future regulatory risks, your lawyers will tell you to call it a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT). A SAFT is a contract with the startup to issue you tokens if and when it is able to launch a network in which the token has utility value. That’s what WhenHub is announcing today.

To be clear, ICOs and SAFTs are not investments, nor do they give the buyer equity in the startup. But they do provide an easy way – compared to angel investing – to share in whatever success the startup experiences. With SAFTs and ICOs the startup describes its plans in a white paper so any potential token buyers can evaluate the risks. WhenHub already has several products on the market, with more coming soon, but we describe in our white paper a proposed new product that is based on our existing scheduling platform and takes advantage of blockchain. The proposed product (WhenHub Interface) is the one that will use digital tokens.

If you are new to this field, I hope I just gave you a toe-hold for understanding it. And I would be delighted if you share this post with friends.

Our tokens are only available in Australia, Canada, European Economic Area, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Russian Federation, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States (excluding New York State). If you are in the United States, you need to be an Accredited Investor (meaning kinda rich) to participate. Outside the United States, regulatory restrictions are lower.

Our Pre-sale is now in progress and our Public Sale starts on Nov. 10, 2017. During the Pre-sale, the minimum investment amount is $ 50,000 and participants get an Early Bird bonus of 30%. For the Public Sale the minimum amount is $ 250, and the the Early Bird discount starts at 20% and decreases to none in two weeks.

Here’s the executive summary from our white paper. A link to the full paper is at the end.

— Executive Summary —

WhenHub proposes to build a mobile app for connecting
consumers to experts of all kinds via two-way video
streams, text, audio, or in person. The app will be part
of a larger service ecosystem called the WhenHub
Interface Network (WIN) (Patent Pending).

The service will use dAPPS (distributed apps) running
on the Ethereum blockchain to create secure micro-contracts
– that can be as short as 15 minutes – as well
as to provide frictionless billing and payment service. At
the end of each micro-contract, payment in the form of
WHEN Tokens will be automatically transferred to the
expert. No paperwork or billing is involved.

Users buy WHEN Tokens using a credit card or with
Bitcoins at an online exchange via the WhenHub
Interface app. The tokens are used within the app to pay
experts for their time.

For privacy, your phone number and address are not
shared with experts.

No international billing and currency issues when WHEN
Tokens are involved.

Pricing for experts can be fixed or auction-based.

In the gig economy, think of this product as a “long tail”
market for expert advice. Experts of all kinds can display
their availability whenever they like, for as short a window
as 15 minutes.

The WhenHub Interface app will use the existing
commercial WhenHub API for scheduling and geofencing
features.

WhenSense is our proposed technology for allowing
third-party sites to host ads about our participating
experts’ availability and share in the income from
completed contracts. Site owners paste our HTML code
into their site to participate.

WHEN Tokens are not an investment vehicle, but
because they will be artificially limited in quantity, their
value is expected to fluctuate based on customer
demand for the WhenHub Interface app.

WHEN Tokens are now available for public purchase via
a formal offering. Visit this page for details of the
offering.

It’s always good to see heads come home from doing a long bid and get back on their grind.

Tru Life is doing just that as the former Rocafella rapper is looking to get his career back on track and for his visuals to “Last Night” links up with the ATLien known as Future, mobbing through the streets of New York like they own the night.
Taking it back further is DJ Kay Slay as he links up two of Hip-Hop’s triple OG’s in Ice-T and Kool G Rap for his studio based clip to “Hip-Hop Icons.”

Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Calvin Harris featuring Kehlani and Lil’ Yachty, PMD, and more.

Future is getting ripped online for some horrifically awful timing — his social media team just tweeted out a promo for his upcoming Las Vegas show. The Twitter post plugged his Halloween weekend show at Drai’s, but seeing as how it came just 12 hours…

Remember Marty’s jean jacket from “Back to the Future”? Well Levi’s Commuter Trucker Jacket with Jacquard by Google is better. We got a glimpse into what might happen when we start connecting our clothes to the internet.WIRED Videos

Well, maybe not literally but in the visuals to Young Thug’s “Relationship,” he and Future take it back to the VHS era when home camcorders captured young women doing the most and recorded the kind of behavior that they’d have a hard time explaining to their future children.

We know lots of grown women today are glad VHS players are a thing of the past.
Back on the block Uncle Murda, 50 Cent and Jeremih give some attractive young women a taste of the good life and take them on a trip to La La Land in the clip to “On & On.”

Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Dave East featuring Chris Brown, Curren$ y & Lex Luger, and more.

I’ve always had an infinite appetite for social relations, regardless of their nature. And although I’m quiet at first, as people get to know me, they quickly realize I’m quite talkative and happy to engage in stimulating conversation.XBIZ.com – Opinion

Ten bottles of Ace of Spades and the best seats in the house at Miami’s hottest club — that’s how Future and Nicki Minaj roll on a Sunday, or really … early Monday morning. The superstars just dropped the video for their collab, “You Da…

On the red carpet at the “Dunkirk” premiere in New York City, Harry Styles talks with Access Hollywood about whether he has plans to continue acting. Plus, he discusses cursing in the film.
“Dunkirk” is in theaters on July 21.

Blac Chyna is trying to convince the world her Future tattoo isn’t the real deal — that it’s just a Sharpie drawing — but we have the proof it’s 100% authentic. Chyna and her friends posted a video on Snapchat Wednesday night where they all had…

A physics professor re-imagines the size and shape of an NFL football in an effort to optimize it for flight. It turns out a couple of small changes can add a whole lot of distance, but how would that change the way the game is played?WIRED Videos – The Scene

The Last time we saw the F-A-B-O-L-O-U-S he was reliving the role that made Tupac Shakur a household name in the hood with his visuals to “Gone For The Winter.” Now Fab returns with another Hip-Hop cinematic classic with the Rich Homie Quan-assisted “We Good” re-enacting one of the more under the radar 90’s cult classics, Dead Presidents.

If Fab’s aim this year was to resurrect classic 90’s Hip-Hop cinema with his visuals then we’re kind of disappointed he didn’t take advantage of that flat-top he had and recreate New Jack City or House Party. Just sayin’.

Uncle Murda links up with Future and takes a stab at crafting some trap house music while up in the club in the visuals to “Right Now.” Luckily Uncle Murda had the good sense not to tattoo Future’s name on his person after hooking up with the ATLien for this track.

Check the rest of today’s visuals which include work from Obie Trice, The Posterz, and more.

Miguel puts out the official remix to his song “Simple Things” which is off of his Wildhearts album. For the remix he enlists the services of Chris Brown and Future; Brook Dleau alongside Miguel handle the production.

Miguel gives his Wildheart track “Simple Things” a proper remix to close out the week.

The Los Angeles crooner teamed up with RCA label mate Chris Brown and the currennt king of autotune and croon Future to give the buttery smooth tune some extra life. This time, Nayvadius leaves the true singers to their man their crafts, while he delivers some bars.

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Future and Blac Chyna were definitely together Friday night in D.C., and it’s pretty clear now they’ve hooked up. Future had a concert at Echo Stage … then went to his after-party where Chyna was right by his side. We’re told they were there for around…

Whether it’s about his no. 1 album, Dirty Sprite 2, or his bad blood with his ex-fiancee Ciara, Future remains the talk of the town. The Freebandz rep is XXL’s latest cover star and opened up not only about his beef with Ciara but the feud between his two hip-hop comrades, Drake and Meek Mill.

When it comes to Ciara and her boyfriend Russell Wilson, Future claims that he does not have an issue with Wilson being around his son, but he feels Ciara does certain things in the spotlight out of spite.

“I’m telling you right now, I’m giving you two sides. Like, I’m cool with it. I’m cool with him being around him but certain situations, we all in the public eye, you can’t move around with my son a certain kind of way, you know what I’m saying? I feel like a lot of moves are just made out of just being evil, basically. Because, you know, the success of my album and you still want to make certain moves to take the spotlight off me a little bit and shed light on a negative situation. Why would you want to put light on a negative situation? Even if I didn’t care about it, the people have a way of looking at it. Why would you want to give these people an opinion on our kid? Why won’t we just let our child be a child?”

Fewtch also said that he never got to know Wilson, which is another gripe he has with CiCi.

“I want to be able to judge him for myself. I want to judge the nannies that’s around my child. I don’t want to pay for a nanny that I never met, that I never got a chance to interview. That’s not the life I want for my child. I want to be involved 100 percent in all decisions made. This my flesh and blood. If I don’t want him to do something, there’s supposed to [be a] compromise or we supposed to talk about it. You not supposed to just go behind my back and do it. This is my son, too.”

As for the tension between Drizzy and Meek, the “Honest” rapper said he has love for both of them but didn’t comment on their beef or Meek’s claims that Drake doesn’t write his own rhymes.

“On some real shit, I love Meek. And the Drake situation, I feel like genuinely we’ve been building a great relationship over these years. We got history together. We went on a few tours together so it was like, publicly, some things was said and it was took out of context. And even with the situation coming out, we put it all behind us, went on a sold out tour and we built from that and I feel like it’s genuine, it’s authentic and we built trust between each other. So with trust it’s just bringing us closer because in this industry, as you get bigger, I feel like you lose trust for everyone around you. You feel like the people you come in contact with, you can’t trust them. So I feel like it had to happen over years, that couldn’t happen over a few months.”

Future just dropped a joint project with Drake, What A Time To Be Alive, which is projected to sell over 500,000 copies its first week.

(AllHipHop News) Drake was not done with Meek Mill yet. After hitting the MMG star with the songs “Charged Up” and “Back To Back” in July, Drizzy took a third shot at Meek on “30 For 30 Freestyle.” The track appears on his joint mixtape What A Time To Be Alive with Future. Some are even suggesting Future also threw a jab at Meek on the project.

Fans of the OVO founder and the Freebandz Gang leader decided to get in on the action as well. Thousands of Instagram users flooded Meek’s IG comment sections with diamond emojis. The pictures represent the cover art for What A Time To Be Alive.

Meek has not officially responded to Drake or Future, but a caption on one IG pic read, “#f*ckboyseason lol.” The message was posted overnight after What A Time To Be Alive dropped.

If you have been keeping up with your Drizzy timesheet, you will know that the e-streets have been salivating with anticipation over the release of his mixtape with Future.

Now that it has been officially confirmed, the details are slowly being rolled out inch by inch. So, gather ’round hustlers, that’s if you’re still living, because the tape now has a due date, an album cover (not the codeine-covered owl that has maneuvered through the Internets these past few days) and a title.

What A Time To Be Alive.

Drake recently let loose an Instagram post revealing that he has his Free Bandz compadre plan to make this a full-blown event that should rival attention spans towards the return of the NFL.

What A Time To Be Alive will be released tomorrow, September 20 via Apple Music (of course!) at 8 p.m. EST.

As for the album cover, it’s simply a close-up shot of a batch of flawlessly cut diamonds. Hopefully the music matches the photo.

T-Pain might’ve been in love with a stripper but I doubt he ever took it to the level Future has.

For the visuals to “The Percocet & Stripper Joint” Future Hendrix locks himself in a telly with stacks of cash, pills, and enough strippers to open up his own club while conjuring up a laid back 90’s West Coast sound to groove to. For some reason this seems like the proper song to play when pulling up the Ashley Madison website.

Mac Miller meanwhile keeps the intriguing visuals off his GO:OD AM LP coming. In “Brand New” Miller imagines his life as the head of an interracial family (like strangely interracial) while working an everyday 9 to 5 like the average Joe Schmo. Needless to say, it was pretty lame, but then again we all know that.

Check out the rest of today’s releases which include work from Travi$ “say something bad about him and Rihanna will come for you” Scott, August Alsina featuring Lil Wayne, and more.

One of, if not the hottest artists in the game right now drops off another set of visuals, this go around it’s for one of the most popular cuts off his latest album, “The Percocet & Stripper Joint”. The Atlanta rapper shows no signs of slowing down at this point and we might just get videos for the whole album at this rate. If you are one of the few who don’t already own “DS2”, we recommend you go pick that up, available now.

We’ve long imagined a device that renders virtual reality that’s indistinguishable from the outside world. In the June issue, Senior Editor Peter Rubin explores the Oculus Rift—a VR headset doing just that. Also this month: creating a museum from the ruins of 2,983 lives, the surprising science of the hangover, and the quantum computer that maybe isn’t.

When William Ledbetter popped the question to his girlfriend Paige Evans, he made sure to include one other very important person in his plans: Paige’s 5-year-old daughter Maddie.

On September 2, the couple’s second anniversary, William proposed to Paige at their home in Gray, Georgia. Afterwards, he also “proposed” to future stepdaughter Maddie, presenting her with her own ring.

“You want to be my daughter forever, too?” he sweetly asks in the video, which was posted to YouTube earlier this month.

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After a little prompting, Maddie says, “Yes!”

William told The Huffington Post that he had some family photos matted and framed as part of Paige’s anniversary present. While she was reading the card that accompanied the gift, he asked her to marry him.

“I didn’t want Maddie to see the pictures and ring I got for Paige and feel left out,” he said. “So I actually got Maddie a ring as well, along with a necklace and earrings so she would feel like she had ‘won’ over her mommy [by getting more].”

“I included Maddie because any time I give her mom presents, she’s always right there wanting to open them for her and talking about how much she loves whatever I got her mom,” William added.

Watch the heartwarming moment unfold in the video above. That hug that William and Maddie share at the end couldn’t be more adorable!

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There’s still no mixtape between Drake and Future yet, or any further telltale signs that it’s even happening since Thursday’s initial buzz. However, Future played Toronto University university on Friday night and the 6 God, of course, made sure he was well received in the city. Drake didn’t come alone either, bringing with him councilman Norm Kelly, the politician who issued the no-fly zone warning to Meek Mill at the outset of that whole fiasco.

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In X-Men: Days of Future Past, the mutant clan goes head-to-head with the Sentinels—a group of dystopian-era robots. Effects experts MPC created the Sentinels’ special effects using a follicle-like animation, comprised of tiny scales. Mike Seymour explains how they accomplished the technically complicated designs.WIRED Videos – The Scene

If the rumors indeed pan out, the alleged Drake and Future mixtape may be the biggest musical release since Kanye West’s Gradution; or Jay Z’s The Blueprint if it turns out to be the classic everybody hopes it to be.

Much like he did with If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, the Canadian all-star is giving the world little time to prep for his bombshell of a release. And much like the aforementioned platinum-selling mixtape, DJ Skee has hinted at the Drake and Future mixtape’s existence, so if it magically lands in your lap in the next 24 hours, just remember we told you not be surprised.

Peep how the rumored Drake and Future mixtape has the Internets losing their sh*t in the gallery down below.

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(AllHipHop News) Meek Mill was caught up in more reports he took shots at another popular rapper. Comments the Philadelphia rapper made during his set at this year’s Made In America Festival were interpreted as a diss toward Future.

“You’re playing all motherf*cking Future tonight,” Meek could be heard telling his DJ. “If you don’t play some motherf*cking rap sh*t too. Play some hot sh*t too. I think Future’s on Made In America.”

The Dream Chasers leader posted a message on Instagram to clear up rumors his words were meant to be disrespectful toward Future. According to Meek, he does not have a problem with his “Jump Out The Face” collaborator or his music.

Meek wrote:

My DJ caught a Future attack on the set when he was told play a bunch of artist sh*t! Lol He prolly did it because I tell [him to] play all Future in the club! Don’t get it f*cked up we rather see the streets win b4 anything!

“While we all want great medical care, we also want doctors who listen to us and convey empathy–an understanding of our feelings and concerns, reflected in a warm demeanor. This can help us to trust and feel connected to them. But that combination can be hard to find….

Following a wave of research suggesting the far-reaching benefits of emotionally attuned physicians, leaders [in the medical profession] have been exploring ways to infuse more empathy into the medical field. That includes re-evaluating the criteria for who should get admitted to medical school in the first place, and what they should learn while they’re there. Their reforms raise questions about what constitutes quality medical care, how (and whether) it can be trained, and how much change is even possible in the American medical system today.”

That article discussed the increase in satisfaction level and response from the patients of empathic physicians and the positive impact it had on the doctors themselves in that they “experience less stress, cynicism, and burnout than those with less empathy.” It also mentioned that the current way in which doctors are trained causes an “erosion of empathy.”

The public’s perception of attorneys reflects this reality. In fact, in 2002, the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association prepared a report entitled, “Public Perceptions of Lawyers Consumer Research Findings”. The findings were as follows: “The legal profession is among the least reputed institutions in American society…. Lawyers have a reputation for winning at all costs, and for being driven by profit and self-interest, rather than client interest.” Lawyers “are believed to manipulate both the system and the truth…. Lawyers’ tactics are said to border on the unethical, and even illegal. This idea does not just come from the media. Personal experiences bear it out.” Sadly, the findings from all subsequent research has been very much the same.

Unfortunately, that’s not all. The following quote from an article by J. Randolph Evans and Shari Klevens titled “Awareness can save lawyers in distress” that was published in the August 14, 2015 edition of the Los Angeles Daily Journal is consistent with everything I have read on the subject:

“The numbers are shocking and sad. Although suicide is the 10th leading cause of death among all Americans, it is the third leading cause of death among attorneys, after cancer and heart disease. That’s nearly six times the suicide rate for the general population….

[A]ttorneys as a group are very susceptible to succumbing to the pressures of a professional practice. Sometimes this means the abuse of narcotics and alcohol, depression and abandonment of clients and practices. Other times it means a state of ultimate hopelessness – suicide.”

According to the American Bar Association, “it is estimated that 18 to 20 percent of the nation’s lawyers abuse alcohol or drugs. By comparison, among the general population, including persons in other highly stressful professions such as physicians and pilots, the estimated rate of chemical abuse is at a much lower eight to ten percent.”

While many law schools now offer courses in mediation, they tend to be elective courses and therefore many law students don’t take them. Furthermore, merely teaching mediation techniques is inadequate because that alone doesn’t help to increase the students’ EQ levels. While emotional intelligence skills can be learned, those skills must be internalized to be effective. Otherwise, our habitual way of reacting or behaving during conflict will preempt any training we receive.

Social and emotional skills such as empathy are essential to conflict resolution. Therefore, those best suited to work in conflict resolution should have high EQ levels (Emotional Intelligence). People frequently confuse “conflict resolution or management” with “dispute resolution.” Conflicts are emotional and disputes are fact-based.

Legal disputes are typically resolved through litigation or litigated negotiation, which are adversarial processes and thereby exacerbate the conflict in order to resolve the dispute. Since conflicts and disputes are often confused or intertwined, it is essential that lawyers be better trained in resolving, or at least de-escalating conflicts. People with low EQ levels can generally resolve disputes, but not the underlying conflicts.

People with high EQ levels have an increased self-awareness, which helps them to recognize and identify the way in which they react to things and is essential to self-management, which helps people to conduct themselves in a manner most suitable for achieving their desired outcomes. People with high EQ levels also tend to make fewer false assumptions as to people’s underlying motives, are more empathic and thereby better able to consider various perspectives. Those with greater emotional intelligence are also more aware of how their actions impact the quality of interpersonal relationships involved and do their best not to sabotage those relationships.

Meanwhile, those attracted to the practice of law are known to have low EQ levels and law school tends to erode whatever empathy those students had at the outset.

At the 50th Anniversary Conference for AFCC (Association of Family and Conciliation Courts) in 2013, Paul J. De Muniz, Distinguished Jurist in Residence, Willamette University College of Law and Former Chief Justice, Oregon Supreme Court said the following: “We need law schools to start to train lawyers who are able to effectively meet the public’s needs. This is not occurring anywhere yet.”

Law schools must begin recognizing the damage that is being caused to interpersonal relationships and our overall society, due to the low EQ levels of those involved in the field of law and make a concerted effort to address this extremely serious problem. Law schools might learn a thing or two from the changes taking place in the education of future physicians. It would benefit everyone if “leaders [in the legal field began ] exploring ways to infuse more empathy into the [legal] field. That includes re-evaluating the criteria for who should get admitted to [law] school in the first place, and what they should learn while they’re there. Their reforms [should] raise questions about what constitutes quality [legal] care, how (and whether) it can be trained, and how much change is even possible in the American [legal] system today.”

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New York staple Uncle Murda gets the Future look for the hook on his new single “Right Now”. Of course this song wouldn’t be complete without the autotune, but this trapped up banger comes courtesy of production from prolific Southern producer, Metro Boomin. Listen to “Right Now” below! Oh yea also….remember when Murda made it to Bill O’Reilly with that cop controversy? Well Uncle Murda continues his verbal assault on the police, the homie ain’t scared to call them out on this track either!

“Gilmore Girls” was a groundbreaking show. It was celebrated for its portrayal of a nuanced relationship between a single mother and daughter, was written in a trademark style and has experienced a major resurgence in popularity in the past year, since coming to Netflix.

We always knew the show was special, but we didn’t realize how extraordinarily prescient it could be at times. In fact, one of its main characters predicted the future of feel-good news (the kind of thing you’d see on Upworthy today) all the way back in 2005.

In the show’s sixth season, Lorelai Gilmore expresses her frustration with all of the bad news being reported in the newspaper, then says she plans to start her own publication that’s only for “good” news.

Sound familiar? It should. Positive-leaning sites like Upworthy, ViralNova and even The Huffington Post’s own Good News page have attracted huge followings in the past few years.

The concept behind "Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium" is in contrast with Between the Buried and Me's ambitious and impressive live stage production. This video features the band in a small studio setting in which they perform "The Parallax II: Future Sequence" album in its entirety at the Fidelitorium outside Winston-Salem, NC.

The night we booked our dream wedding venue, my fiance’s mother called in a panic because she forgot to mail their birthday gift to me. After chatting a few minutes, the bright pink elephant in the room was broached: Would they attend our wedding? The heartbreaking conversation that followed boiled down to they wouldn’t attend because they “follow the Bible.”

Days later my birthday card arrived, enclosed with a gift card, and signed “Love, Russ & Pat.” Every speck of glitter that fell from it mocked us. Over 17 years they had built such a convincing facade of acceptance. With painful clarity, I realized whenever they had cryptically said they were “praying for us,” it wasn’t for a safe drive home or for Tim and his brother to make amends. They never outwardly said it before, but their “love the sinner/hate the sin” mentality became obvious. Which is why their gift and the card ended up in a return envelope with the following letter.

July 20, 2015

Dear Russ & Pat:

Please, don’t discard this letter without reading it through. I write not to attack or disparage you or your beliefs. I would, however, issue you a challenge to really examine the actions you’ve taken in the name of those beliefs. Please, hear what I have to say. I think it is important you understand what has transpired and only wish to ask some admittedly difficult questions and beseech you to honestly consider them before dismissing me out of hand.

First of all, thank you for the birthday card and gift card; the sentiment was nice. I just wish it felt sincere — if not for me, then for your son, Tim. Oh, I know you love him (indeed both of us) in the best way you know how. Just like I know a lifetime of learning doctrine to mean one thing is not easy to reconcile with conflicting truths or even admit that it may be at least partially flawed. But not to even make an attempt to understand that the love you have for your living flesh-and-blood son should trump millennia-old religious texts written at a time when slavery was status quo, women were property and eating pork or shellfish was punishable by death or banishment is disheartening. No person can take every single Biblical tenet as literal law. You may protest that you do, but you and I both know the reverse is true, even if only to a degree.

Russ, surely you never shunned your wife as unclean during a certain time of the month to the extent you wouldn’t even share furniture with her. Pat, surely you wouldn’t agree to Russ keeping concubines or to you marrying his brother if he should die. And I’m pretty sure Carolyn wasn’t shunned, banished or condemned to death for divorcing one husband and taking another. So why do you take the fleeting six references to gay people in both the Old and New Testaments as nonnegotiable truth and law? Why won’t you at least entertain the possibility that the way in which scripture on this particular topic has been taught, like so many others that came before it regarding anti-miscegenation, race, slavery and women, may be flawed and tainted by archaic bias falsely cloaked under the insidious fallacy of “love the sinner, hate the sin”? Being gay is not a choice. It is not some addiction or disease that can be cured. It is innate and immutable. You can no more successfully hope and pray for a person’s orientation to change than you could hope and pray for a tomato to change into a brick.

Believe me. I wasted years of my youth trying to change because people I loved and respected expected it of me. I didn’t want to face what seemed like at the time would be an eternity of ostracism and hatred and loneliness. I tried and I tried. And I failed. And it took me a long time to realize that being who I am would lead to none of those fates — but hating myself for being who I am would. Finally, I learned that being gay is an inborn trait no different than height and hair color. After all, if it weren’t, don’t you think centuries of fervent efforts to rid humanity of it would have shown at least some modicum of success? Yet here we are.

I, and all gay people like me and your son, could no sooner turn heterosexual than you could will your eyes to change colors. And just like possessing eye colors that not everyone shares, being gay is just one in a pantheon of benignly healthy and natural human traits. We are born gay and someday, far in the future, we will die gay. Just as you are born with the eye color you will die with. It is a neuropsychological and biological fact. So, when you “hate the sin” in this instance, you are indeed hating the “sinner.”

The only choice any of us has in the matter is how we react to what is a perfectly natural form of human life. My mother could not accept it at first. She had been raised to believe as you do that gay people like your son and me are depraved and lascivious monsters. When I was forced out of the closet to her, she faced a choice: Believe what others had told her, or believe her own eyes, heart, mind and soul. Thankfully, after a difficult struggle that took a couple of years of hard honesty and self-examination, she embraced me unconditionally. Which is why I was giving you the benefit of the doubt. Experience taught me when people reject fear and instead open themselves to love, they change for the better.

Your actions and loving attitudes toward us over the past nearly two decades had given me hope that you acknowledged us as a committed couple who commanded at least some of the respect and dignity afforded to married couples like Tim’s brother and his wife. Our lack of marriage wasn’t through any lack of wanting. Had we been able to marry when we wanted, we would be celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary, not planning our wedding 17 years after we met and fell in love.

So I must admit, when Tim called you to find out if you would attend our wedding and you told him you would not even consider being there for him because you “just wouldn’t feel comfortable,” I was (and still am) shocked and deeply saddened. Look at your son. I mean honestly look at your son. He is loving, caring, generous of spirit, honest, creative, witty, helpful and talented in so many ways. That you will not allow yourselves to celebrate and love him unconditionally as I do is mindboggling. Instead you focus on one facet of his being that others have told you is flawed and detestable and condemn him for it. He may not show it, but he is devastated that the last 20 years of what he thought was growing acceptance on your part now feels like just so much lying (a sentiment I can’t help but share).

I hope this is not the case. The eternal optimist in me hopes your love for him truly is unconditional and is merely and unfortunately at odds with your faith to such an extent that you are unsure how you should act or how you should feel, but that, regardless, eventually you will land on the side of love rather than fear.

But the realist in me fears that is not the case. Deep down, I’m afraid that you are truly choosing how you’ve been taught to interpret your faith over allowing yourselves to love your son wholly and unconditionally. And to allow such a thing causes an astoundingly profound disservice to everyone involved.

Please prove the realist in me wrong. You are missing out on what should be a truly wonderful relationship with your son that is more than just awkward small talk made to hide your uncomfortable truth in a desperate attempt to keep him in your life. It would be real. It would be honest. It would be unconditionally loving. You would want to celebrate him as much as I do, not hide away who he is like a dirty secret.

As an aside, we don’t want to destroy marriage or “redefine” it. We want to join in its exalted status. To declare to each other and the world vows of love and fidelity to one another and only one another. You may feel uncomfortable with it, you may even loathe the very notion. But it is fact. Now that we legally can, we will be getting married this fall. I just wish you had chosen to be there and celebrate with us and the rest of those whom we hold dearest in our hearts.

But that moment has passed. The damage is done and I fear there is no going back. Regardless of your motives or justifications or future attempts to reconcile, the simple fact is you chose the words of an ancient book and the fire-breathing vitriol of preachers over the love of your own child.

This is why I must regretfully return your card and gift; I just don’t feel comfortable keeping them.

With sincere love and respect,

James

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In this episode, Thiel fellow Rebecca Jolitz takes us on a tour of the NASA Ames Research Center, where she worked while attending UC Berkeley. The entire group also pays a visit to lunar transportation company Moon Express for lessons on space, technology, and how to turn the impossible into a reality.

We Came As Romans have already seen major success, with their first two albums topping 100,000 sales, and an incredible tour history of sold out headline tours and support spots for the biggest acts in the scene. Present, Future and Past was filmed as part of the Tracing Back Roots tour at the House of Blues in Chicago and captures the energy and intensity of their live performances.

Throwback Thursday really does live up to its name as today’s visuals feature artists who dominated the 90’s.

First off is P. Diddy who enlists the talents of Skateboard P to help him jam out in a club scene similar to that of the infamous Tunnel (80’s babies know what I’m talking about) on this Hype Williams directed “Finna Get Loose.”

On the other side of the states Warren G utilizes vocals left behind by Nate D-O-Double-G (R.I.P.) and kicks that Left Coast G-funk that’s been absent for quite some time on his latest cut, “My House.”

And leave it to a rapper like Future to take TBT to the next level. For the visuals to “I Serve The Base” Ciara’s baby daddy uses stock footage of his trapping days from 2004 to give you a better idea of the kind of life he came from to make it this far. Russell Wilson better take notice!

Check out the rest of today’s releases which include work from legendary group Public Enemy, T-Pain, and more.